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Quoted from sunnRAT:Yep, I collect certain blu rays. Some of which are limited runs.
Very nice. You and I have a lot of the same flix. I am envious of that Dellamorte Dellamore blu.
Quoted from sunnRAT:Yep, I collect certain blu rays. Some of which are limited runs.
I just went through your collection more closely and it's amazing how much overlap we have...
The Other Hell
Savage Dawn
Horror Express
Ninja III - The Domination
Ninja Scroll
PATRICK
Phenomena
Pieces
Prince of Darkness
Rabid
Return of the Living Dead
Lone Wolf McQuade
The Hearse
Fando Y Lis
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
Escape from the Bronx
Escape from NY
The Fog
City of the Living Dead
House by the Cemetery
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Halloween III
Hardware
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
LifeForce
Miami Connection
Samurai Cop
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Dead End Drive In
Death Wish collection
Deathstalker
Deathstalker II
Deep Red
Delirium
Demons
Dungeonmaster
Eliminators
Nightmare Castle
A lot of the rest of it is stuff that I would love to have if my budget was bigger, but you even have a handful I have never heard of before. Most impressive. I've been collecting horror movies since I was in high school, and have also been adding a lot of 'so bad it's good' flicks over the last decade.
I have nearly 2,000 movies on disc. I have a lot of the more rare ones backed up to digital, but still display the discs. I just love the covers and they make great conversation pieces while people are waiting for their turn on a pin.
Quoted from sunnRAT:Yeah those are some great ones and you know it! I've had some VHS and DVD over the years from working at record stores in the past but I didnt get heavy into collecting until the blu ray releases started getting really good, like around when Scream Factory first got things rolling.
I have lots of oddball stuff and find myself buying very selectively lately. Really digging Italian 70s cop movies lately. Anything Euro-horror/Gialli. Spaghetti Westerns. Cannon Films/80s typical action stuff. I think I have more Lucio Fulci movies than any other director.
Even more overlap there! "I can see you are a man of good... taste." I have a lot of cheaper shit, but a lot of good/rare stuff too. I went and took some close-ups of my horror and action movies. I have quite a bit more on multipacks.
Euro horror tends to be last frontier where I am still discovering new gems. I'm a long time Argento Fan, with Suspiria and Deep Red being my favs. Fulci is hit or miss for me, but I love a lot of his work too (have The Beyond, City of the Living Dead, Zombi, House by the Cemetery, etc). There's still a few of his flicks I haven't seen, mostly because they haven't been well distributed over the years. I really dig the Spaghetti Westerns too. I have all of the 'man with no name' movies, but would have to say Once Upon a Time in the West with Charles Bronson is my favorite there (though , 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' gives it a run for it's money).
If you like cheesy 80s action flicks like Samurai Cop and Miami Connection, here's a few others that may interest you...
Deadly Prey - An over the top, mullet haired re-imagining of The Most Dangerous Game
Hard Ticket to Hawaii - Busty blondes packing heat foil a smuggling operation.
Never Too Young to Die - John Stamos vs a cross dressing Gene Simmons
Empire of the Dark - A modern day swordmaster with a beer gut must enter a portal to hell to rescue his girl.
No Retreat, No Surrender - A bullied teen channels the ghost of Bruce Lee to win a karate tournament
Dangerous Men - I... honestly have next to no idea what's going on in this one, but it is awesome.
Gymkata - Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas must use all of his acrobatic skills to take down an evil army of ninjas in a contest to the death.
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I got Deadly Prey and Deadliest Prey on order from Diabolik already!
Yes! Andy Sidaris did both Malibu Express and Hard Ticket to Hawaii and they are both great. He has a crazy life story and gave up a lucrative career in sports journalism and invested his fortune in making sleazy action movies. He made about 20 movies with very similar plots and themes, using people from the same pool of actors... Most of them revolve around 2 women with big... guns... bringing down a criminal organization in a tropical location. There are 2 large box sets that have been released that I know of; 'Bullets, Bombs and Babes', and 'Girls, Guns and G-Strings', but just recently they have been coming out individually on blu ray.
And congrats on Deadly Prey! That one is just mind blowing. Deadliest Prey was a bit of a letdown for me, but still worth checking out.
Curious, what are your top Fulci flicks? I like his style and am always on the lookout for some buried treasures.
Quoted from sunnRAT:Not sure if you have any of these but they're excellent in different ways. Murderock is a good 80s giallo with some fantastic 'talent' and a great Keith Emerson score. Conquest is a fantasy movie he did also in the 80s worth checking out. Typical sci fi/fantasy of the time, but with some scenes of gore and wonderful overdubs, plus one of the main villains is topless the entire movie. Touch of Death a bit of an odd film. It's a dark comedy Fulci style.
Here's the IMDB for Touch of Death: "A moody, middle-aged gigolo kills off women after he gets bored with dating them and uses their body parts for trophies and for consumption."
Aenigma I havent seen in awhile, its 80s supernatural horror I need to revisit. "Carrie", Fulci style. I have the 88 Films release (another great label) but decided to double dip and get the Severin release. Zombi 3 is credited to Fulci, but it was taken over by Bruno Mattei when Fulci became ill on set. It's still amazing and I love his movies too. Perversion Story is another early giallo with Marisa Mell in it...and, well, I love Marisa Mell.
Good stuff, thanks! I have at least heard of most of those, except for Murderock and Perversion Story. I have Zombi 3 (and 4) and really enjoyed that one. From what I heard, Fulci did most of the A story, and Mattei added in all of the scenes with the squad of guys in white hazmat suits. It's like a colorful live action zombie comic. Some fantastic cover art on all of these too. I would love to see a modern day horror pin with artwork in this style! You can see where the artist for Zaccaria Spooky got their influences from. I actually had the covers for Aenigma and Cat in the Brain set as my Windows wallpaper for a long time, but have never got a chance to see them. What's great about this hobby is that there is somehow still new 70s and 80s movies to discover and share, even after all this time. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
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While I'm sure only fans of so-bad-it's-good cinema will be familiar with these, I wanted to show off my Neil Breen collection now that I finally have the covers for all 5 films. Neil is so cheap that most of these flicks ship new with no cover art. He makes Tommy Wiseau look like James Cameron.
20210325_100858 (resized).jpgQuoted from Rivv:Now that is a collection! One of my fondest cinematic memories was seeing Fateful Findings at a Seattle film festival in the early 2010s. It was a transcendent experience. I've seen Double Down too, but need to finish the rest of his oeuvre.
That is badass!! I haven't been lucky enough to see any of these in the theater. Fateful Findings and Double Down are probably my two favorites, though part of that may be that I saw Double Down first and Neil is at his most awkward in that one. Really, they are all worth multiple viewings, but Twisted Pair may be his most ambitious film to date. My wife actually got me Double Down for my birthday one year by emailing Neil directly, and he sent a hand addressed copy with his autograph on the disc! It's the little things that make life worth living...
20210325_155055 (resized).jpgQuoted from Rivv:A Cat in the Brain is a lot of fun, one of my Fulci favs. He was also quite good as an actor in it IMO.
Ok, now I know what Fulci flick I am adding to the library next. I rewatched the whole 'Gates of Hell' trilogy since we were last talking Fulci in this thread. It just gets better every time!
HMP-Gates-of-Hell-Trilogy (resized).jpgQuoted from Rivv:Love the autograph and story! I had a similar experience when my wife ordered The Room blu-ray from Tommy for a Christmas present for me and he sent a signed 8x10 head shot of himself with the dedication "Be Good!" I need to watch Twisted Pair, looks totally bonkers from the trailer.
On the Fulci front I got the 4k versions of House by the Cemetery and The New York Ripper a while ago but haven't watched them in that format yet. Sounds like they look great from reviews and the Maniac and Vigilante 4k releases also from Blue Underground I have are awesome.
That's another great autograph story! It sounds like Wiseau has a pretty good sense of humor. I wish he could have kept the rest of his work on par with The Room. I think he became too self-aware and tried too hard to emulate what he did in that movie, but it's the type of thing you just can't do intentionally.
Blue Underground really does incredible work. They are really consistent too. Even their DVDs are some of the best looking I have ever seen. AFAIK - it was formed by a lot of the original crew from Anchor Bay, from before the Stars merger. I don't know where horror home video would be today without them. I'm sure those 4k prints will pop!
I think I at least have just about every domestic classic on disc. I would love to hear about more! 3 weeks later
Is American Rickshaw a new addition? Does it hold up? I came so close to buying that on my last order from Diabolik.
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Finally got in the last of my most recent orders, including the new Homegrown Horrors Vol. 1 from Vinegar Syndrome. This set includes 'Winterbeast', 'Fatal Exam' and 'Beyond Dream's Door'. I've only seen Winterbeast before, but it was a crowd pleaser. I was also excited to score a copy of Graduation Day, since this had been OOP for a few years and I didn't think it was coming back. I added a few other 80's oddballs for good measure.
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Here's my latest order. Some are upgrades from flicks I had on dvd. sunnRAT - I ended up taking your advice on American Rickshaw. Wow, that is a weird one!
Interesting thing on 'The Nesting'... I had seen this movie as a little kid in the 80s and some scenes gave me nightmares. Later in life, I could never figure out what the movie was and in recent years, I started to believe that maybe it just *was* a nightmare I had as a kid and the movie didn't really exist. I was watching movie reviews on yt a couple months ago and BAM! Clips from this movie appeared on the screen and it hit me like a brick wall. I jumped up and shouted to my wife "It's that f'ng movie I've been talking about for years! It's real!!" It was just such an amazing moment to have this nearly 40 year old mystery finally laid to rest.
20210707_170735.jpgThanks! I haven't seen 'Rainbow' yet, but it's been recommended to me several times so I decided to take a chance on it.
Quoted from sunnRAT:Damn this movie kicks ass. John Woo style 80s military action. Heres the trailer for those who havent seen this.
Heroes Shed No Tears does look awesome. The Golden Harvest logo at the beginning of the trailer alone was enough to make want to run out and see it.
I have that Jodorowski box set you have. Glad I picked it up when I did! I hadn't seen those flicks since the VHS era. I love that twist ending to Holy Mountain and had forgotten all about it. Oh what a practical joker that Jodorowski is. hahah
I went to visit a friend over the weekend who is also into horror movies. He had a copy of A Cat In The Brain on his shelf and let me borrow it. Great flick! It's different from what I'd usually expect from Fulci, but also possibly his most gory movie at the same time. I couldn't help but laugh at some of the absurd deaths. It may be the closest he came to capturing that Romero movie feel.
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Quoted from sunnRAT:As a tribute to Norm Macdonald, im watching the Frank Stallone film, Savage Harbor.
Edit: I have already watched it since I left this text sitting in this box whenever ago.
It was glorious.
It's never a Frank Stallone movie. It's a STALLONE movie... (frank) STALLONE. Will have to check that one out. This one is good for some laughs. There's a fight scene where (frank) STALLONE and bad guy take orderly turns punching eachother in the face with no blocking, dodging, or other movement. Also features the legendary Cameron Mitchell looking like he wandered onto the set by accident in between drinks, and he has some incredible dialogue, including where he starts cursing at a plane flying overhead during the shoot.
Quoted from sunnRAT:Cat in the Brain is AMAZING and one of the best endings of all time.
It was great. My friend was nice enough to let me keep the dvd copy, since he picked up the new blu ray while I was borrowing it. He also gave me a copy of Ken Russell's 'The Devils', which I had never seen before despite having copies of Altered States and Lair of the White Worm. It's definitely not a movie that you forget the next day.
20220609_104409 (resized).jpgQuoted from sunnRAT:Adding to the que. I have only seen Altered States. Some really good performances in that one.
The crazy visuals from Altered States carry over into his other movies too. Lair of the White Worm has a few funny parts, but The Devils is pretty damn dark.
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